I grew up in a small town in upstate NY, studied English Literature at Swarthmore College and then pursued advanced degrees in Philosophy at Tufts University and The Ohio State University, while working as a puppeteer and musician at the Bread & Puppet Theater during the summers. My dissertation was on the metaphysics of fictional characters, and I continue to pursue this as my primary area of research, drawing on contemporary work on this topic as well as my experience as a puppeteer and my love of literature. I currently live in a small town in the Hudson Valley with my husband, our son, and our two cats. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, reading novels, playing music and riding my bike on the rail trail. I also make small puppet shows and walk on stilts in local parades and festivals.

My research concerns the ongoing debate over realism and anti-realism about fictional objects, drawing on work in contemporary metaphysics as well as philosophy of language. I take explicit indeterminacy regarding fictional objects to be a central issue and argue that pretense theory has the best resources to capture our practices regarding such indeterminacy. I'm also interested in the ways that we relate to and are affected by fictions, and the ways that fictions interface with reality.